Federal agency representatives meeting to discuss bitcoin

Representatives from a number of US federal agencies are attending a conference on Monday (26th August) to discuss bitcoin. Hosted by the Bitcoin Foundation at the US treasury building in Washington DC, the meeting will be attended by high-level representatives from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Federal Reserve. Also attending will be representatives from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security. Patrick Murck, Brian Klein, Marco Santori and Peter Vessenes will represent the Bitcoin Foundation at the event and Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at Cato Institute, will also be present. Murck said the conference will help regu...